I don't have much interest for Alchimia, a very mysterious science, for which I do, however, have respect. However, there is a part of the alchemical teachings that arouses my curiosity, I have much of interest for..

This is Cryptography (which I mentioned in one of my recent posts). Indeed, just like the Solomonic or Faustian magic grimoires; the grimoires and other manuscripts dealing with alchemy contained many strange symbols, glyphs. . . It should be known that just like many magicians, a large number of Achimists of the time were persecuted, accused by the Church of heresy and sometimes even of witchcraft !

This is why many alchemists decided (certainly) to code their works; thus, if they fell into the wrong hands, its could not be interpreted and the content of the text would remain indecipherable for anyone who did not know the real meaning of each of the alchemical symbols drawn in the grimoire.

There are also several similarities between many alchemical symbols (in that book and in many others) and with several Faustian magical texts. Most of the Faustian texts are from Germanic origin, it is not surprising then, because there was a very great interest in the Germanic countries for the study of Kabbalah and Alchemy, from XVIth to XVIIIth century. That book is a perfect example (as far as alchemy is concerned).

Here are below some boards from the book that describes beautiful symbols. For many of them, their meaning are given in German, Latin, French, Spanish and Italian ! The work counts 122 Boards or Tafeln.